creativity/machine

I do cultural studies and new media studies, most recently situated within the interdisciplinary context of the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology.

My current research work, housed within the Federation Fellowship program in the Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT broadly concentrates on everyday media creation and use in relation to technological change, both past and present, with a particular focus on the YouTube community as well as various other sites of user-led content creation, both online and offline.

With Joshua Green, I spent most of 2007-2008 doing research on YouTube. The project brought together cultural and media studies theory with a large-scale survey of YouTube’s most popular content as well as an analysis of media representations of the cultures of online video. We have a book coming out in 2009 based on the study.

In early 2007 I completed a PhD on everyday creative practice and the ‘democratisation’ of technology. The thesis is called Vernacular Creativity and New Media. And before that I completed a study called High Culture as Subculture: Brisbane’s Contemporary Chamber Music Scene for my Master of Philosophy at the University of Queensland.